Mathematical Failure (Unreal)

[skidderman]

My brother needs a few groceries in a large grocery store in Prince Albert, SK. What he buys comes to exactly $15.00. He decides because it is a low amount to pay cash and gives the teller a 20 dollar bill. She grabs her cell phone and turns around. Then she turns back to my brother & says, “I can’t figure it out”. He says to her what is $20 minus $15. She replies, “I don’t know”. His reply is you owe me $5.00 to which she hands him $5.00 with a mystified look on her face. incredulous. Absolutely unreal.

[270person]

[Ebrand]

And this is how the Liberals get voted in.

[gunluvr]

It's no surprise that young people dont know anything worthwhile. All they're taught in school is useless garbage like "gender equality, LGBQT2+rights, climate emergency, the carbon boogeyman ",etc.
There's no time for actual life skills. The teaching profession has brought shame upon itself.
If you vote NDP this spring, you're part of the problem.

[waldedw]

Yup if you pull out cash most cashiers are buggered, everyone uses debit so they don't have to think, it's sad really, a sign of the times and our woke education system.

[58thecat]

Here we go the morning rant

[schreyer]

I like paying with cash. At the end of the day I put all the coins in a Texas Mickey I have at home and once that’s full I treat myself to something I normally wouldn’t buy.

[vinny]

I feel like this story is fake. There’s no way he went to grocery store and the total only came to $15 !!! 🤣🤣

[jungleboy]

If this is a true story, then who ever hired the cashier is obviously mailing it in, as in not doing their job screening applicants for this position.

The world is full of not smarts and there are as many in management as on the front line it seems.

[ak77]

This isn't recent problem. Education system in NA has been pooped for years, if not decades. I've been in Canada 24 years, was noticing similar examples for over 20, maybe there was more, wasn't paying attention... Before all those gender studies, alphabet people studies, climate emergency, etc. we had discovery math, which had proved itself a disaster. Don't know what was before that, but if you looked at global high school index (PISA) Canadian students rank 12th in math, 9th in science, and 6th in reading (latest report was 2018, next one was supposed to be in 21, i guess COVID stepped in that year. What's interesting is in 2000 Canada ranked higher, like 6th in math, fort instance. Every report after that shows the score sliding). At least by the time kids graduate they can read... Not that anyone does, and then in the few years people start forgetting things, and we start having "your/you're", "through/thru" and similar blunders...
One example i remember - similar circumstances like skidderman described, but at Timmies. My order was 1.65, gave the cashier 2.15. Saw the gears behind her eyes freeze for a second, then she gave me $1 back and waved through.

[elkhunter11]

The sad fact is that more and more emphasis is being placed on social engineering, and less on learning the basics, like mathematics. And with everyone carrying a phone theses days, and using payment cards, many people don't actually have to do calculations in their head.

[CanuckShooter]

Originally Posted by ak77

This isn't recent problem. Education system in NA has been pooped for years, if not decades. I've been in Canada 24 years, was noticing similar examples for over 20, maybe there was more, wasn't paying attention... Before all those gender studies, alphabet people studies, climate emergency, etc. we had discovery math, which had proved itself a disaster. Don't know what was before that, but if you looked at global high school index (PISA) Canadian students rank 12th in math, 9th in science, and 6th in reading (latest report was 2018, next one was supposed to be in 21, i guess COVID stepped in that year. What's interesting is in 2000 Canada ranked higher, like 6th in math, fort instance. Every report after that shows the score sliding). At least by the time kids graduate they can read... Not that anyone does, and then in the few years people start forgetting things, and we start having "your/you're", "through/thru" and similar blunders...
One example i remember - similar circumstances like skidderman described, but at Timmies. My order was 1.65, gave the cashier 2.15. Saw the gears behind her eyes freeze for a second, then she gave me $1 back and waved through.

Would that count as taxable income?

[ak77]

Originally Posted by CanuckShooter

Would that count as taxable income?

The way i see it - it was a gift. 😜

[bat119]

A lot of kids can't read an analog clock, Told the grandkid I'd pick him up for hockey at quarter to nine he had no idea what I was talking about.

[FCLightning]

Originally Posted by CanuckShooter

Would that count as taxable income?

Tips are taxable.

[Grizzly Adams1]

Originally Posted by 58thecat

Here we go the morning rant

It is frustrating. I learned how to make change in my juvenile days, try that on a cashier nowadays. If you're good, you can make money on the deal.

Grizz

[Grizzly Adams1]

Originally Posted by jungleboy

If this is a true story, then who ever hired the cashier is obviously mailing it in, as in not doing their job screening applicants for this position.

The world is full of not smarts and there are as many in management as on the front line it seems.

Let's be honest, the education system is screwed. I'm not surprised every time the media shows us a prodigy, he's a non white, usually Asian, they still recognize the value of a real education and pursue it.

Grizz

[EZM]

Sometimes you even see cashiers struggling to count the change they give you back .... despite the fact the cash register says "change 4.65" and they are pecking at the change drawers trying to figure out how to add stuff up to the 4.65 they owe you, staring down at their hand with a confused look and some long pauses.

IF YOU CAN'T DO BASIC MATH OR COUNT DON'T BE A CASHIER. Why do companies put these people in roles they are not suited for????


It's also the same places that have a dozen people on shift, and put the person in the drive through that understands/speaks the least English. You try and play the rinse and repeat game with the drive thru person over a crappy little speaker then pull up to get your coffee (which is wrong) and see there are, in fact, people working there that would have been far better suited with far better communication skills.

WHY? WHY?

[guysmiley]

Imagine a person with average intelligence.


Then remember that means that half of the people out there are below them.

[Mavrick]

If kids don’t know what we know that’s on us, pointing out that kids can’t do simple tasks, tells me that the parents haven’t done their part on life skills. Nothing to do with the education system.

We sure like to blame everyone else when we see things like this, but it’s the guy in the mirror that has let this person down.

It wouldn’t have hurt for the customer to take a minute and help a young person out instead of making fun of it. Young people in this position when in front of an older person feel intimidated, and it’s hard for them to think on their feet at that point. You would think a little guidance would have been the way to go here.

[ruffy71]

If that kid can't do simple math, it ain't the schools fault.

When my kids went through high school, a kid could get anything they want.

Advanced academics, (pretty much start university level stuff while still in high school)
Regular academics
Focus on the trades
Slow learning
Kids with special needs

What the heck else are they supposed to do?

Nah, it's on the kid and the parents.

you can lead a horse to water....

[lannie]

I think most kids are much better today than earlier generations.

That girl works in a grocery store and there is a good chance she never completed junior high school. I haven't met any youth that disconnected. To be that far behind I would think she didn't grow up in Prince Albert but somewhere in one of the many federal funded communities nearby.

[Sundancefisher]

Originally Posted by jungleboy

If this is a true story, then who ever hired the cashier is obviously mailing it in, as in not doing their job screening applicants for this position.

The world is full of not smarts and there are as many in management as on the front line it seems.

Yup. When I was 14 I got a job at a Dairy Queen in Edmonton. By the time I was 15 I was being left alone to open and close… except cashing out. I was also to train new people. Had two start and I ran them through the drills. How to clean the washrooms, mop floors, change the hoses for pop and ice cream machines, how to work the grill, how to work the pop and ice cream machines… not super bright but seemed to get it.

Then we got to the till. Older model. Didn’t do change but gave a total. Buttons were all labeled for product so didn’t need to memorize prices.

Gave them each $5 bill and pretended to buy an item of $1.20. Asked for change back from the open till. Neither could do it.

It’s not a now thing. It’s been around for ever.

Every parent should try it now. Put a pile of change and bills on the table. Give them a twenty and tell them the bill came to $6.15. Return change for a $20.

Hope they can all do it.

[fishtank]

It’s not just math some of the recent headline …Man shot by police at Edmonton funicular had pellet gun. ( pretty sure they gave him plenty of time to surrender but ….)

[flydude]

Originally Posted by guysmiley

Imagine a person with average intelligence.


Then remember that means that half of the people out there are below them.

Not true.

If the following numbers were the intelligence level scores of 10 people

2
4
6
8
10
14
16
18
20
130

Average= 22.8

[DirtShooter]

. It's a real shame the old math isn't taught anymore.

[pikeman06]

I know a couple bank tellers that can't do their job either. Had a couple massive screw ups on my year end of buisness/personal taxes this year. The one couldn't make a simple bank draft from my business account so I could pay myself on the personal side. I just about switched banks right there and then. Probably still will.

[1899b]

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[AxeMan]

Originally Posted by flydude

Not true.

If the following numbers were the intelligence level scores of 10 people

2
4
6
8
10
14
16
18
20
130

Average= 22.8

Lol. Using Trudeau's cabinet as your example threw off the statistics. And the 130 just resigned.

[Big Sky]

Oldie but goodie.



I use cash from time to time. The clerk punches in the amount I gave them. The till tells them how much to give me back.